Both these mainboards based on Intel P67 Express chipset have all the necessary interfaces and functionality that high-end contemporary mainboards from leading manufacturers should have. Besides, they also boast a few Elitegroup’s own proprietary unique features. Read more in our double-review.

Operational and Overclocking Specifics

Both Elitegroup mainboards discussed in this review didn’t cause any serious problems in nominal mode. The only thing I would want to bring up one more time is the fact that we didn’t see working dynamic adjustment of the active phases in the CPU voltage regulator circuitry on ECS P67H2-A. However, overclocking on this mainboard was quite fruitful and we managed to push our processor to 4.8 GHz frequency – the same as on most other mainboards we tested so far.

At the same time all processor power-saving technologies stayed up and running, lowering the processor clock frequency multiplier as well as core voltage in idle mode.

But even in this case all processor power-saving technologies remained intact.

Speaking of memory, we have to say that like on majority of other manufacturers’ boards, it worked at 1600 MHz with 6-6-6-18-1T timings on both Elitegroup mainboards. However, the boards took different ways to get to this point. For a while we believed that ECS P67H2-A mainboard would be able to repeat the achievement of MSI P67A-GD80 (B3) mainboard and get the memory to work at 1867 MHz. For example, it successfully passed a one-and-a-half hour test in Prime95. Unfortunately, we soon discovered that in this mode it is unable to run SuperPi test even for as little as three minutes, so we had to lower the memory clock. As for ECS P67H2-A2 mainboard, it started reporting errors at 1867 MHz memory clock right after we started the tests, so we were forced to drop the memory clock down to 1600 MHz.

Here we should also mention an error we uncovered in the mainboards BIOS. It turned out that if you modified the base clock, memory frequency or memory timings in any way, you would have to bring them back to default values manually: booting the system with all defaults didn’t affect these parameters in any way.